The Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold a School Maker Faire on Saturday, April 28 from 11 am – 1 pm at the Education Building on the UCSB campus. Like other Maker Faires, this event will celebrate “making,” that is hands-on activities related to robotics, circuits, crafts, building, and other pursuits.
A sample of the activities include: boat design; bubbles, catapult; marble roller coasters, marble machines; paper airplanes; parachute plunge; pendulum art; sounds; stomp rockets; the zipline challenge; computer programming in virtual reality; cardboard magnetic blocks, 3D printing; interactive engineering; makey makey; soft robotics; ozobot robotics; holograms; music and Mbots; and more.
The event is run by a leadership team centered in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education headed by Associate Professor Danielle Harlow. In addition to graduate students in the Department of Education working with Harlow, the event will feature numerous elementary teacher candidates in the Teacher Education Program at UCSB as presenters. Visiting presenters and speakers include expert teachers from Brandon Elementary, Isla Vista Elementary, McKinley Elementary, Washington Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary, Ellwood Elementary, Harding University Partnership School, Peabody Charter, Ventura Charter, Adelante, Charter; and presenters from Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy, Santa Barbara Public Library, Girl Scout Daisy and Brownie Troop 50463, Curie-osity Project: a collaboration between UCSB and Girls Inc., MOIX, the Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, UCSB Material Research Lab, LogMeIn, UCSB Photonics Society, and the IV Teen Center.
The event is free, but students do have to pre-register for planning purposes. The registration form is online.